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authorSandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>2012-01-19 21:23:00 (GMT)
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Issue #13605: more meaningful example + fixes
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@@ -840,16 +840,16 @@ values are:
usage: PROG [-h] foo [foo ...]
PROG: error: too few arguments
-* ``argparse.REMAINDER``. All the remaining command-line arguments
- are gathered into a lits. This is commonly useful for command line
- utilities that dispatch to other command line utilities.
+* ``argparse.REMAINDER``. All the remaining command-line arguments are gathered
+ into a list. This is commonly useful for command line utilities that dispatch
+ to other command line utilities.
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo')
>>> parser.add_argument('command')
>>> parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER)
- >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B XX YY ZZ'.split())
- Namespace(args=['YY', 'ZZ'], command='XX', foo='B')
+ >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B cmd --arg1 XX ZZ'.split())
+ Namespace(args=['--arg1', 'XX', 'ZZ'], command='cmd', foo='B')
If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed
is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument